Cambridgeshire Police said the allegations involved 11 male casualties, all under 16, between 1978 and 2009.

“Looking back at it now I care person did elevate the issue, ” Mr Smith said, “I can see how wrong it is but at the time we all just thought it was natural. We never genuinely reported it to our parents.”

“Back in the teenager team days I construed actors drop out after these tournaments. It killed their football because of this one man.”

Image copyrightKit CarsonImage caption Michael “Kit” Carson ran as a coach and scout for a number of guilds

Police are continuing to investigate the circumstances of the fatal crash, which took place on a straight slouse of the A1303 between Cambridge and Newmarket at 09:45 GMT on Monday.

The trial was formally finished when bulletin of Mr Carson’s extinction was relayed to Peterborough Crown Court on Tuesday.

Mark McDonald QC, apology barrister, said his client was “strident and robust in his opposition to the allegations”, and his account of happens “stood up to scrutiny”.

Mr Carson’s fatality is being treated as non-suspicious, a thrust spokesperson said.